But our craft high and dry, the Upoluan lifted his crest as the erudite pagan; master of Gog and Magog, expounder of all things heathenish and obscure.
An hour or two was now laughed away in very charming conversation with Media; when I hinted, that a couch and solitude would be acceptable.

Whereupon, seizing a taper, our host escorted us without the palace.

And ushering us into a handsome unoccupied mansion, gave me to understand that the same was mine.

Mounting to the dais, he then instituted a vigorous investigation, to discern whether every thing was in order.

Not fancying something about the mats, he rolled them up into bundles, and one by one sent them flying at the heads of his servitors; who, upon that gentle hint made off with them, soon after returning with fresh ones.